PAPER TWO is divided into two sections:-

• PART 1: will be focus on your ability to aplly geographical skills and will be based on either POPULATION or RIVERS
• PART 2: will be on our Temburong fieldwork

We recommend that you do the Temburong section first ( spend 30 minutes on this)

Part 1: General skills (30 minutes...do this second..fieldwork first)

Check you are happy with all of the techniques involved. Skills Checklist for AS Geography. (See pages 312-341 in your textbook)
Questions will require different skills from you so...

Be ready to draw:-
The exam may want you to draw or add information to partially finish graphs, log graphs, scatter graphs, pie charts, triangular graphs, radial diagrams, population pyramids, dot maps, flow line maps, choropleth maps... so make sure you have the correct equipment with you!!!
Bring a ruler, a protractor, pencils, pencil sharpener, ruler and a calculator to the exam
(no colour pencils necessary as your answers will be scanned in black & while for the markers)
Remember to draw neatly, use a key/label axes, and be accurate

Be ready to calculate:-

• Descriptive statistics
  • Mean, median, mode
  • Range, interquartile range
  • Standard deviation
• Spearman's Rank Correlation test

Be ready to use:-

• OS maps

Show off your mapwork skills by refering to grid references, distance, direction in your answers.

• Be able to recognise river/coastal landforms
• Evidence of different types of settlement (road layout/facilities available)

• Photographs
  • Know the difference between label (name) & annotate (more detailed)
  • draw arrows into the photo
  • be ready to draw a sketch from a photo

• Population Pyramids
  • Remember when describing population structure you focus on amount of Young / Adult / Old & Male/Females
  • Be able to calculate: dependency ratio, juvinility Index, old age index
  • Be able to predict future trends
  • When explaining structure you can refer to possible birth / death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, migration
  • Link to stages of demographic transition
  • Know advantages and disadvantages of using percentage figures & actual figures to indicate number of people on a population pyramid

Practice population pyramid questions given out in class (pack with mark schemes)

• Demographic Transition Model
  • Be able to identify each stage
  • Be able to link the stages with specific population pyramid shapes
  • Be able to predict future trends

• Scattergraphs
  • Be able to identify positive/negative correlations (and use a spearmans rank correlation test)
  • You may be asked to draw on a best fit line
  • Be able to recognise anomolies

• Census Data
  • Have a look at the census website Neighbourhood Statistics(Type in Ashley and select ward...for our Montpelier example in Bristol) and Know what kind of data is available.
  • Be aware of the names of census districts (output area (OA) and super output areas(SOA) see pages 194-198 in your textbook.
  • Know advantages and disadvantages of using census data (secondary data) compared to primary data collection.

• GIS Images

• Define GIS
• Know examples of GIS software and its purpose. (give site names)

Be able to describe trends:-

• On a graph
  • Identify main trend (give data)
  • Identify anomolies (give data)
  • Try to manipulate data

• On a map
  • use compass directions
  • refer to continent / country/region*
  • LEDC or MEDC
  • refer to main features (eg coastal / inland, near a large city)

For UK: check you know
Location of the main cities in UK (FUN QUIZ)
Uk Main Regions*

Be able to evaluate:-

• Accuracy & reliability of data provided
  • what was the source, is it trustworthy, might it be biased?
  • is the data over a short or long period of time?
  • does it cover all areas?
  • what units are used?

• Strengths and weaknesses of the presentation technique used

SEE PAGES 341 in your textbook for detailed advice on how to use the various techniques involved in this paper
Look over past papers to see what techniques are used